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Jasper Knight is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and has a substantial body of research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly contributions focus on a range of topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Aeolian processes and effects, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Landslides and related hazards, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Jasper Knight include:

  • Scientists' warning of the impacts of climate change on mountains, 2022, PeerJ
  • A continental perspective on the timing of environmental change during the last glacial stage in Australia, 2021, Quaternary Research
  • Denudation and geomorphic change in the Anthropocene; a global overview., 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • New fjords, new coasts, new landscapes: The geomorphology of paraglacial coasts formed after recent glacier retreat in Brepollen (Hornsund, southern Svalbard), 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Predicting Soil Organic Carbon Content Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing in a Degraded Mountain Landscape in Lesotho, 2020, Applied and Environmental Soil Science

Jasper Knight frequently collaborates with researchers including Helene Burningham, Stefan Grab, Jennifer M. Fitchett, Mohamed A. M. Abd Elbasit, and Lynda Petherick.

Their research has been published extensively in various venues, with notable recurring publications in:

  • South African Journal of Geology
  • Sustainability
  • South African Geographical Journal
  • Quaternary International
  • Quaternary Research

In addition to journal articles, Knight has contributed to book publications, such as a title published by Springer International Publishing in 2023 titled Selected Studies in Geotechnics, Geo-informatics and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and geomorphological hazards in the eastern European Alps

    Margreth Keiler;Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison

  • Evidence for Heinrich event 1 in the British Isles

    Marshall McCabe;Jasper Knight;Stephen McCarron

  • The impacts of climate change on terrestrial Earth surface systems

    Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison

  • Rock glaciers and the geomorphological evolution of deglacierizing mountains

    Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison;Darren B. Jones

  • Mountain Glacial and Paraglacial Environments under Global Climate Change: Lessons from the Past, Future Directions and Policy Implications

    Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison

  • Late Holocene (Post 4000 years BP) coastal dune development in Northumberland, northeast England

    Peter Wilson;Julian D. Orford;Jasper Knight;Sharon M. Braley

  • The environmental significance of ventifacts: A critical review

    Jasper Knight

  • Denudation and geomorphic change in the Anthropocene; a global overview.

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  • A continental perspective on the timing of environmental change during the last glacial stage in Australia

    Haidee Cadd;Haidee Cadd;Haidee Cadd;Lynda Petherick;Jonathan Tyler;Annika Herbert

  • Introduction to coastal processes & geomorphology

    Gerhard Masselink;Michael G. Hughes;Jasper Knight

  • Identification and significance of ice-flow-transverse subglacial ridges (Rogen moraines) in northern central Ireland

    Jasper Knight;A. Marshall McCabe

  • Holocene coastal dune initiation in Northumberland and Norfolk, eastern UK: climate and sea-level changes as possible forcing agents for dune initiation

    J. D. Orford;P. Wilson;A. G. Wintle;J. Knight

  • Ice-flow stages and glacial bedforms in north central Ireland: a record of rapid environmental change during the last glacial termination

    A. Marshall McCABE;Jasper Knight;Stephen G. McCARRON

  • Boulder dynamics on an Atlantic-facing rock coastline, northwest Ireland

    Jasper Knight;Helene Burningham

  • Drumlin evolution and ice sheet oscillations along the NE Atlantic margin, Donegal bay, western Ireland

    Jasper Knight;A. Marshall McCabe

  • New fjords, new coasts, new landscapes: the geomorphology of paraglacial coasts formed after recent glacier retreat in Brepollen (Hornsund, southern Svalbard)

    Mateusz C. Strzelecki;Mateusz C. Strzelecki;Witold Szczuciński;Aleksander Dominiczak;Piotr Zagórski

  • Limitations of uniformitarianism in the Anthropocene

    Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison

  • Transience in cascading paraglacial systems

    Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison

  • Sediments and future climate

    Jasper Knight;Stephan Harrison

  • Landform modification by palaeo-ice streams in east-central Ireland

    Jasper Knight;Sg McCarron;Am Marshall McCabe

  • Pleistocene glaciations in Ireland

    Jasper Knight;Peter Coxon;A. Marshall McCabe;Stephen G. McCarron

  • Glacial sedimentary evidence supporting stick-slip basal ice flow

    Jasper Knight

  • Geomorphological Field Mapping

    Jasper Knight;Wishart A. Mitchell;James Rose;James Rose

  • Periglacial and Paraglacial Processes and Environments

    J. Knight;S. Harrison

  • High resolution morphodynamics and sedimentary evolution of estuaries

    Duncan M. FitzGerald;Jasper Knight

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Harrison
Stephan Harrison University of Exeter
Julian D. Orford
Julian D. Orford Queen's University Belfast
Ann G. Wintle
Ann G. Wintle Aberystwyth University
Helen Roe
Helen Roe Queen's University Belfast
michael smith
michael smith Royal Geographical Society
Duncan M. FitzGerald
Duncan M. FitzGerald Boston University
James Rose
James Rose Royal Holloway University of London
James Goff
James Goff University of New South Wales
Tim J Cohen
Tim J Cohen University of Wollongong
Timothy T. Barrows
Timothy T. Barrows University of New South Wales

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